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Oh Crap, Seems I've messed up big time now.

In my spree to change user account settings for a limited account, I ended up locking one of my harddrives..for EVERYONE.

Ive rebooted into safe mode, and ive checked all user accounts, and none of the accounts have access to the Security tab, nor do icacls or takeown have any chance or removing and changing the settings.

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Im sorry if im being troublesome, but I really need to get this harddrive working. and that Fast.

...also, hopefully without having to reformat.

Ps: Running Windows 7

-dao.

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You could try using the takeown command

Click on start and type cmd, then right click and choose Run as administrator or hold down CTRL and SHIFT and press ENTER

type in:

takeown /f H: /r /d Y

You should then be able to reset the security permissions to give access permissions you want.

If you are dual booting OS's be careful as you may lose access from the other OS.

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Try taking the affected hard drive out and putting it into another computer. Then you should be able to take ownership of it.

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WAIT! You can't lose data when formatting. It's still recoverable as long as you don't use or put any more data on it. When you format, it actually delete a special area called FAT (file allocation table) which is basically an index of the files on the hard drive. While the index is gone, you can still recover files. It's just inacessible after you format but there are software that will help you recover them.

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